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February 13, 2014

Starpower: Boost in quest for nuclear fusion
Paris (AFP) Feb 12, 2014
Scientists on Wednesday announced an important advance in the long quest to harness nuclear fusion, a field that has sparked dreams of clean and limitless energy. Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and other stars, entails forging the nuclei of atoms to release energy, as opposed to splitting them, which is fission - the principle behind the atomic bomb and nuclear power. Decades of work in fusion have run up against a giant hurdle - the energy yield from the reaction has been dwarfed by ... read more

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